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Your reputation and ours are dependent on how well you are able to perform at the level indicated by your résumé. Contract positions expect immediate performance with no training and only a brief familiarization. "Puffing" your résumé can land you in a situation from which your reputation cannot recover. Please be as accurate as possible.

The following example demonstrates the type of résumé detail needed for submission to Software North. This detail allows us to present your services to the client without frequent Q. & A. sessions.

The client will request services based on certain skills they want to see in a particular contractor. We take the skills you have given in your résumé and enter them in a database. If you have not been diligent in describing your skill set, you may eliminate yourself as a possible candidate to fill the contract.

You do not need to worry about someone being too busy to assess your résumé, so please do not fall into the one page trap. It may take 5 to 10 pages to describe all your professional experience.

Since we are prescreening all prospects for a particular client contract, you will have a better chance of being selected if you give us all the information in the beginning. It is also helpful to provide references with your résumé.

Your detailed résumé will be presented "AS IS" to the client when we are finalizing the selection process. We would prefer to receive it as an MS Word document (.doc) or in Rich Text Format (.rtf). The best way to send it to us is attached to an email at the following address:

resumes@softwarenorth.net

For those who have already sent us a résumé we ask that you review it on an annual basis and send us regularly updated ones. When searching through our database for potential resources, we usually start from the most recent résumés and work our way back.

Example résumé:


Jane A. Doe
doeja@yahoo.com
1234 Parkdown Circle
Voice: 907.563-9999
Anchorage, Alaska 99599
Fax: 907.563-8888
 

 

Summary of Relevant Experience

Over 25 years experience in the IT industry including software development and analysis, business systems consulting, data center analysis, IT strategic planning, project management, and quality assurance. Has over 15 years experience in Alaska including both public and private enterprises. Strong analytical, technical, and communication skills enable her to turn nebulous user requirements into intuitive and elegant applications that increase productivity as well as quality.

 

Recent Projects:

ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.

SAP Conversion Project

Jan-2002 to Oct-2002

Project Manager/Computer Systems Consultant

Managed the package enhancements and installation of the Docs Open software package for Alpine engineering and permit documents. Provided project team consultation and analysis in the conversion of the existing Engineering Documentation System to the SAP DMS (Document Management System) module. Interpreted client requirements into SAP DMS requirements. Served as client liaison. Defined and tested data conversion from legacy system. Wrote ABAP specs for special Phillips Alaska, Inc needs. Tested all aspects of SAP DMS conversion and coordinated fixes with various SAP and IT groups. Provided client training and post-implementation support.

 

 

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

eServices Project

Feb-2001 to Jun-2001

Consultant

Primary IT consultant for the redesign the business processes associated Digital Business department of BP Exploration Alaska - including workflow, processes and infrastructure.  Objectives of the project were:

  • Provide a "one-stop" service for routine requests.

  • Simplify the view for the customer such that they can easily and quickly find and obtain the goods or services that they require from Digital Business organization

  • Streamline the approval process for computers accounts and computer procurement

  • Provide comprehensive asset management and reporting tools for Digital Business provided assets including computers, cell phones, pagers and licensed software

Conducted initial needs analysis, performed workflow analysis, completed an analysis of requirements and produced refined workflow, processes and system design specifications resulting in the developed an Internet based “Yahoo”-like procurement web site, integration of both computer accounts and associated assets into a compressive database and the deployment of a web based computer account request system.

 

 

Alaska State Department of Public Safety

APSIN Modification Project

Jan-1999 to Jan-2001

Senior Analyst/Consultant

Modifying APSIN to capture additional information for the Sex Offender registration subsystem. Modifications are being made to both the mainframe system written in Natural accessing ADABAS as well as to the interface to a Microsoft Access database. Screens in the MS Access database are currently being modified to reflect the new information. Generating new programs to added sex offender information to the III Sex Offender Hot Files and to allow the operators to query against those files.

 

 

Arco Alaska, Inc.

Oracle Data Warehouse Installation

Oct-1998 to Jan-1999

Senior Database Consultant

Oversaw design and maintenance of Database environment at Arco Alaska division of $20 billion Oil Exploration and Production Company.  Supported distributed Oracle database environment.  Performed upgrades, patch maintenance and integration with vendor software on AIX, NT and Solaris platforms.  Led up to 7 team members performing Database Administration.

Performed installation and support of Oracle DBMS (7,8,8i) software on AIX and Win/NT.  Created Oracle Instances and Database Objects for various applications, including Engineering, Financial, and Maintenance systems. Installed and maintained various third party applications and system software including Peloton, Maximo, Essbase, Brio Enterprise Server and Sybase/Oracle Gateway.

 

 

Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon

Change Management Analysis Project

Dec-1999 to Aug-2000

Contract Analyst, Consultant

Documented 20 interfaces of data from various legacy systems through an SQL server to their Avantis manufacturing and inventory control product. 

Recommended changes to allow these interfaces to perform more reliably.  Lead the project involving several Port of Portland programmers as well as contract people to implement the changes.

Analyzed the requirements and wrote the detailed design document to interface between various legacy systems and a new HR management and payroll system (UltiPro).

 

Other Projects

OMS Re-engineering: Tasked with the job of redesigning a troubled, yet key oil movements system application. Provided the client with clear presentations on the problems and proposed solutions. The final re-engineered system went into production on July 12, 2000.

Project Resource: Tasked with the duties of an Enterprise project resource. Primarily used to aid projects that were in trouble due to technical difficulties or personnel shortages. Worked for four different clients in 1999 alone. Also used as technical resource by fellow employees on a daily basis.

Midas Optimization: Performed the duties of Technical Lead and Lead Programmer on this project. Duties included writing the project brief, designing and performing enhancements to the database, programming the modifications to the PC front-end (ACCESS and VBA), programming modifications to the Unix MIDAS simulation engine (Perl) and directing the programming efforts of the other programmers on the project.

Fluid Surveillance Tool: Performed the duties of Technical Lead and Lead Programmer on this project. Duties included writing the project brief, designing and creating the database, programming the PC front-end (ACCESS and VBA) and directing the programming efforts of the other programmers on the project. The system is used to update and validate actual fluid interpretation and prediction data. In 2002, rewrote the application and converted the application from using a Sybase database to an Oracle database as its data source.

Common Plotting Environment: Performed the duties of Technical lead on this project. Directed the programming efforts of several programmers who were writing a Visual Basic plotting application that would replace old FORTRAN Code Unix plots. When the main programmer left CTG, took over direct programming responsibility, incorporated the disparate pieces of the system, finished the snapshot report, and programmed the final user requested enhancements and fixes. In 2002, converted the application from using a Sybase database to an Oracle database as its data source.

Log Server: Performed the duties of Technical lead on this project. Directed the programming efforts of programmers who were writing a server for fetching log data from the Geolog application. The server was written as a Sybase ESP server which executed 3GL (C++) code. Finished the coding and testing when the programmer left CTG.

Midas Sychronization Design: Designed a system to integrate the workings of the MIDAS simulation engine and the FFM (Full Field Model Simulation). The output of each simulation is used to feed the other simulation. The synchronization was achieved through the use of semaphores and shared memory (UNIX). As part of this effort, the Design of the MIDAS Optimization effort was also included.

MIDAS: (Miscible Injectant Distribution and Allocation System). Performed the duties of Technical Lead and Lead Programmer on this project. Duties included writing the project brief, designing and creating the database, programming the PC front-end (ACCESS and VBA) and directing the programming efforts of the other programmers writing the UNIX simulation engine (Perl).

RMBPAT: (Reserve Management Business Planning Application Tool). Performed the duties of Technical Lead and Lead Programmer on this project. Duties included writing the project brief, designing and creating the database, programming the spreadsheets (VBA) and directing the programming efforts of the other programmers on the project. The system is used to track and report yearly Oil Reserves.

Other Projects Continued

Vital Statistics: Performed the duties of Project Manager and Technical Lead on this project. Converted a number of interlinked spreadsheets into a cohesive Database accessed by a few spreadsheets and Neuron Data data entry screens. The spreadsheets accessed BP and ARCO data (across the gateway) to create monthly management charts, graphs and reports.

XPI: As a Senior Programming Analyst for a major oil company, was responsible for maintaining and enhancing a graphical well plotting and correlation system. The system was written in C and Fortran. It ran in UNIX and accessed Sybase databases through the use of stored procedures. Also, as part of installing the product in Aberdeen, Scotland, developed a conversion program generator to aid in converting data between releases of database versions.

As a Senior Programming Analyst for an electric company, was responsible for design, develop, implement and document a Labor Data Collection system that would interface with the Payroll, Common Transactions and Work Management systems. The work was done using DOS JCL, Cobol, CICS, Millennium and Eztrieve Plus. After the mainframe system was completed, A PC GUI front-end was written using Mozart.

As a Senior Programming Analyst for an electric company, was responsible for design, development, implementation and documentation of a Work Management Tracking and budgeting database to track expenditures by work order and budget at Chugach Electric. Also developed a set of productivity tools for use with Millennium.

As a Senior Programming Analyst for an electric company, worked to design, develop, implement and document a common transaction database to tie together company’s various systems and feed the new General ledger system. The work was completed ahead of schedule due to a heavy emphasis on Eztrieve Plus.

As a Senior Programming Analyst for a state commission on post-secondary education, was responsible for the software maintenance on outstanding service requests. Also designed and supervised the implementation of a Production to Test Data Transfer system. Completed the coding and testing of the data conversion for the Alaska Commission on Post Secondary Education. Scheduled and ran the conversion on the state mainframe. The conversion was highly successful with a rejection rate of less than .25%

As a Senior Programming Analyst for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, designed, developed, implemented and documented the REGDIS database for the Regulatory arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The system was a combined database and imaging tracking system for tracking the Permitting and Enforcements actions performed by the Corps. The system was written in PACE and COBOL on a WANG VS 7110.

As a Data Processing Consultant for a house wares wholesaler, was responsible for customizing a Payroll package including a total rewrite of the timecard entry program as well as modifications to the vacation accruals and several reports.

As a Data Processing Consultant for a State Agency, was responsible for writing a nightly download from the State AKSIS database on an IBM Mainframe to the FACTS WANG database to keep the Agency's database up to date with Budget Information.

As a Senior Programmer/Analyst for a State Agency, was responsible for customizing a loan package written by Information Associates. The completed system was installed as an ADABAS system on the State IBM Mainframe.

 

Software/databases/
programming languages currently proficient

Last 3 Years:

Software: MS Word, Excel Access, Wonderware, InTouch, CICS, MS Project, Jbuilder, Jdeveloper, Visio, PowerPoint, Natural

Languages: Perl, JCL, J2EE, VB, VBA, Fortran, HTML

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SyBase, ADABAS, Access

Operating Systems: UNIX, OS390, MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, DOS/JCL, WANG DMS

 

Over 3 Years:

Software: MS Word, Excel Access, Wonderware, InTouch, CICS, MS Project, Jbuilder, Jdeveloper, Visio, PowerPoint, Natural, AIC, Expeditor, Nextstep, Millenium, Geolog, Power Designer, OPC Client

Languages: Perl, JCL, J2EE, VB, VBA, Fortran, COBOL, C, BASIC, X-Windows, EZTRIEVE PLUS, Natural, PDL, C++, RPN, TSQL, PL/SQL, HTML

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SyBase, ADABAS, Access, VSAM, PACE, Total, RBASE

Operating Systems: UNIX, OS390, MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, DOS/JCL, WANG DMS, CMS, ISPF/PDF, MVS, TSO, Roscoe, VSE, Motif

 

Formal Education/ Certificates

University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Minor in Business Information Systems

 

Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Database Administrator (Oracle 8i)

 

References/Contacts

 

 

Joe Blow

Project Manager

ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.

P.O. Box 1234

Anchorage, AK 99555

(907) 555-1234

joe.blow@bogus.com

 

Sam McGee

System Administrator

Alaska State Department of Public Safety

432 Busy Street

Anchorage, AK 99555

(907) 555-4321

mcgees@bogus.ak.gov

 

Janet Blough

Project Coordinator

BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc.

P.O. Box 5678

Anchorage, AK 99555

jblo@bogus.net

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